We all know about lucid dreams don't we? The sort of dreams where you know your dreaming and you control it, but the visiualisations and images are so real? Well, I just wanted to know your thoughts on it. Do you believe it interrupts what our subconscious naturally tries to tell us, or do you believe that it can be used for our advantage - getting rid of fears, overcoming nightmares, practising for things in real life and adventure/fun? I am unsure, but know of a method of inducing them from being awake, which I am practising now, but I want to know what you think...
I kind of decide what I dream before I go to sleep, that is IF I can get to sleep.
I try to decide to dream about something that I want, or something that I need.
I kind of visualise it and them just lie on my bed staring at the ceiling for a while
thinking about it. If it takes me too long to fall asleep, then I try something else.
I think that when I dream of something I am scared of, and I controll it, then I
kind of forget about it and I am not scarrd/afraid of it anymore.
It is kind of strange because in some dreams I cannot remember what I was
dreaming about, thus unable to overcome it or understand it.
It is quite strange, I love dreaming becasuse I love controlling my thoughts and
I love knowing what I am going to dream about before I go to sleep, so I can think
of dreaming of something else before I go into deepsleep.
Did that make sense??
I think they can be really good for nightmares and just having fun. But I don't feel as rested after them as a normal dream. I don't think you could have too many lucid dreams. I would be had presses to have more than one in a night and more than a few a week. So I think it leaves plenty of time for you to keep having normal therapeutic dreams.
On another note, my little Ellie (2yrs old) for the first time told me about her dream when she woke up this afternoon from her nap. it was a s follows:
" A little spider was dying on the lounge. He was very good and very tiny"
She was a bit sad about it.
You can try to interpret that if you want Stephen.
Spiders generally mean patience, creativity or misunderstanding. Maybe she is saying that her patience or creativity is dying, or maybe a misunderstanding is and that's good (very small and very good). It's kinda hard cause it's not that detailed, but thats what i came up with.
thankyou Stephen that's quite interesting but doesn't seem to really fit. I wonder whether dream symbolism really works when you're that young.
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I lucid dream an awful lot. In that i know this is a dream, but that doesn't always mean i get a say in what happens, if that makes sense. So it's not a proper lucid dream meaning i can have a control over it entirely. I do get to have some control, like telling myself to walk into a different place, but most of the time i'm a lucid observer, and make the decision for when it is best to wake up if it happens to be a nightmare... I don't always make myself wake up with nightmares, i like a little madness in my dreams every now and again, tis really good fodder for when i have to write darker parts in my stories. And the fact that it's lucid means i'll remember it....
But i don't know about it interrupting meaning, or sorting things out... I think the fact that it's lucid is a meaning on its own, can be brought into the understanding of the dream. But i've never sorted out any of my problems in dreams, so i can't help you on the second one
this is kinda off topic but:
I had these dream once, and I loved it. It was a kinda love/hate thing where two people were in love but the guy was married and in the end the girl jumped off a castle tower (it was set in a tower, the details are kinda sketcy)
the next night I REALLY wanted to have that dream again, and I KINDA did. But they kept stopping and improvising like a badly rehersed play. It turned out completely different
I can lucid dream when I want, but I generally choose not to, partly cause I have to go through the hypnagogic nightmares to get there, which can be kinda freaky. I think raineth, that dream symbolism does work when you are younger, but because the dream was so vague, it was kinda hard to figure out. In relation to Flit's comment about not being able to control them, and easy method is to spin around, but before you spin around, expect to see something/someone there when you turn around. That is also useful for if you are slipping out of the dream and you want to stay there. This type of dreaming relies a lot on will power, so the stronger the will to do/say/feel/go something/somewhere, the more chance you have of doing this. Hope that helps...
well, i wouldn't say that i controlled the WHOLE dream, but i think parts of it i did.
it was a weird dream were i was at my familys house and i dreamt that before i got there, i stole an ipod, coz i really wanted one and my mum and dad wouldn't buy it for me!! which is try in real life, too, except i wouldn't steal.
anyway, i took tha ipod and then i dreamt that my baby cousin wasn't a baby and that it was a guy, but in real life it's a girl.
now i'm just about to get a knew cousin, so maby this dream is telling my that it will be a boy. what do ya think?
Woah! Phedre! Nice one~! ^_^ Well congrats to your family and new cousin eh X3
I don't have lucid dreams much any more... but one I did have but for some unknown reason, unlike most lucid dreams I don't remember much at all. There was much more to the dream than what I said here.
It goes:
From a normal dream by the sea, I sort of stepped into that lucid dream. Then I was a mansion, but when I went inside, it was far far bigger than what it looked on the outside. It seemed endless. I knew I had been there before yet when I woke, I don't recall any other similar dream at all. But I knew then I was home. So being aware that I was in a dream I knew I didn't have much time to explore the beloved place. Explore I did except I can't remember anything except a room with a really high window that looked to be a study... the architecture was all old, 16-1700s? I then climbed up to it, and for some reason I had to jump out and catch hold of the wildly swinging rope. I was dismayed, then I thought, heck, I'll just believe that I'll get it. And so I did. Then a prescence came and said to me, "believe in your magic". Then it said "You know, you can't get here without my help," I said "It's okay, I'm just so glad to be back". Then I went back inside. It was summer outside and pleasantly cool in the house. I could feel it on my "skin" so to speak. I went to the basement and the air became actually staler and colder. I felt/smelled it all. And from there on it became hazy and weird...
Any ideas what it could mean? I was at a loss...
Well i'm not really good at interpreting, however i can say this: I find it much easier to step into a Lucid dream when I am near or in the sea in my normal dream.
The sea is the shore of the subconscious. That should spell enough info for you to figure out the rest [img]http://s4.images.proboards.com/wink.gif" alt=";)" border="0"/>
i'm curious to know stephan what your opinion is about them, i occasionally have a lucid dream usually its a dream when i am flying or perhaps in the dream i have super normal powers . occasionally if there is something i really don't like in a dream, and when waking i have used techniques such as fasting to control it, and i start dreaming it, then i might have a lucid dream. I used to think that If i could have the right sort of lucid dream then i could talk to another person. a sort of primative idea of dreamwalking i guess
Well, as a general opinion, they can be quite enjoyable for fun and stress relief etc. depending on whether you just want to enjoy yourself or whether you want to know the meanings of your regular dreams. And yes, it is said through lucid dreams it is possible to talk to another person, but it involves 'astral travel' rather than the dream itself.
-Stephen
